{"id":181,"date":"2015-08-30T12:20:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T12:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dcgoe.de\/?p=181"},"modified":"2020-07-12T08:26:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T08:26:27","slug":"goettingen-goes-euros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dcgoe.de\/?p=181","title":{"rendered":"G\u00f6ttingen goes euros!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the past the G\u00f6ttingen Debating Society has mostly been active on \nthe stage of German language debating. But however&nbsp;this year we decided \nto attend the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.viennaeudc.eu\/\">European Universities Debating Championships<\/a>\n (EUDC) which is a debating tournament for universities from all over \nEurope (but also Kazakhstan, Israel and some other nearby countries) \nhosted in Vienna this year. These international tournaments take place \nin English language.<br>\nIt was clear to us that we wouldn\u2019t win anything at the tournament except for experience and new&nbsp;acquaintances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>International tournaments (like the Euros) normally have at least two\n different competitions depending on the language proficiency of the \nparticipants: \u201eEnglish as proficient language\u201c (EPL) and \u201eEnglish as \nsecond language\u201c (ESL). All participating teams are in the same pool \nduring the preliminary rounds, but for the knock-out rounds the field is\n split into these categories. The World Universities Debating \nChampionships (WUDC, <a href=\"http:\/\/thessaloniki2016.com\/\">this year in Thessaloniki<\/a>) usually also feature a third category \u201eEnglish as Foreign Language\u201c (EFL) for students who exclusively used English in school.<br>\nOur two teams (DCGA A: Alex and Quirin, DCGA B: Sebastian and Ruwen) \nstarted in the ESL competition. We had a lot of fun although in terms of\n a good ranking we were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tabbie.org\/Vienna-EUDC-2015\">not that successful<\/a>.\n In particular Sebastian and Ruwen were lucky (?) in the beginning to \nstart in a real toproom (the first round is shuffled) with the first \nteams from Oxford, Tel Aviv and Trinity College Dublin. Unluckily they \nonly made the forth position \u2013 no shame in that room I guess.<br>\nJanni represented G\u00f6ttingen as a judge and also advanced in the top room\n for one round which one might read as a sign that he wasn\u2019t doing his \njob so badly. Nikos joined his old colleague Konrad from T\u00fcbingen for \ntheir team.<br>\nThe Debating Society Vienna (\u201e<a href=\"http:\/\/www.debattierklubwien.at\/\">Debattierklub Wien<\/a>\u201e)\n demonstrated&nbsp;impressing professionalism regarding their wonderful \norganisation of the tournament and a lot of nice socials \u2013 even after \nthe quarterfinals had to be cancelled because of a fire alarm. Thanks \nfor their work!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The impressions from Vienna did not depress us much because of the \nbad results but have indeed motivated us to attend more international \ntournaments in the future. If you are also interested in international \ndebating just contact us or join our <a href=\"http:\/\/debattierclub-goettingen.de\/?page_id=187\">English debate on Mondays<\/a> (during the lecture months)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/dcgoe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/team_eudc2015-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dcgoe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/team_eudc2015.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dcgoe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/team_eudc2015-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dcgoe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/team_eudc2015-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dcgoe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/team_eudc2015-360x240.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Our team for the Euros: Quirin, Janni, Alex, Ruwen, Sebastian in the front at the Marriott Courtyard Hotel (!)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past the G\u00f6ttingen Debating Society has mostly been active on the stage of German language debating. 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